Tagged African-American Poet

“I wanted to understand my people. I wanted to understand what it meant to be a . What the qualities of life were. With their imagination, they combine two great loves: the love of words and the love of life....

I dream a world... where wretchedness will hang its head, and joy like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!
Langston Hughes, best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance,...

Gil Scott-Heron was the African American poet, novelist, musician, and songwriter known primarily for his work as a spoken-word performer in the 1970s and 1980s. His syncopated spoken style and critiques of pol...

Frances E.W. Harper was a leading African-American poet and writer. She was also an ardent activist in the abolitionist and women's rights movements. Harper had a long and prolific career, publishing her first ...

Lucy Terry Prince, known as Lucy Terry, (c. 1730–1821) was brought to Rhode Island from Africa. Her future husband purchased her freedom before their marriage in 1756. She composed a ballad, Bars Fight, about...

Angelina Weld Grimké (Feb. 27, 1880 - June 10, 1958.), was an African-American poet and playwright, an important forerunner of the Harlem Renaissance.
“I oft have dreamed the bliss
Of the nectar in one...